1. What’s your experience?
Bridging the GPS Gap
Links between school-based GPS and subject training programmes
What’s your experience?

2. Key Principles:
Organisation
Communication
Participation

3. Organisation: Opportunities in school
Provide school calendar for trainees so they have all the key dates.
Comprehensive Induction timetable
Tutor group outside subject area
Look at what else is going on:
Citizenship lessons, Health lessons / tutorials, Information, Advice and Guidance, Citizenship, Assemblies, Interventions, ESOL classes, extra-curricular clubs, transition meetings, options, parental engagement opportunities, exam provision, access arrangements, revision classes, shadowing support staff eg. admin staff, premises.

4. Communication
GIVE mentors a copy of the Professional studies programme
TELL them which lesson(s) to keep free on trainee timetables
PROMPT mentors to follow-up key sessions in their weekly meetings
REMIND mentors of other opportunities in school for trainees to work on the GPS
PROVIDE additional support for mentors to ensure trainees get the most out of GPS opportunities. Eg. parents’ evenings.
CREATE a sense of TEAM between the 3 parties:– eg. Induction lunch

5. Eg. Communication about Parents’ evenings:
Example
If trainees are taking parents’ evening, please make sure you are sitting with them and that you brief them about:
Preparing comments beforehand
Having relevant data to hand
Keeping to time
The right tone and approach to take with parents eg. ask if they have any comments or questions to begin with
Keep it as positive as possible – think:  WWW – what works well (what’s she’s doing well)
Explain without using jargon if she is making progress
Identify 1 target – EBI – even better if . . .

6. Participation: Consortium across schools
The Leicester City Consortium is a group of schools who organise the programme for the wider professional standards for all the ITT students on placement in their establishments. We aim to cover most of the general professional topics on the programme.

7. A typical programme looks like this:
Date
Day
Session
Venue
Time
Staff
26/10/16
Wednesday
Introduction
CHCC
1:45-3:15
All ITT
co-ordinators
02/11/16
EAL and SEND
SJNCC
12:00-3:00
09/11/16
Disability Awareness
Ashfield
16/11/16
Creativity in the classroom
St Pauls
23/11/16
Writing Applications
TCOLC
Tina Searle
30/11/16
Visit to Millgate
Millgate/
Keyham
07/12/16
Communicating with Parents
Lancaster Boys
1:45 – 3:15
09/12/15
Friday
DEADLINE FOR MOCK APPLICATIONS
Various
4pm
14/12/16
Mock interviews
All ITT Co-ordinators

8. Date Session March 8th Introduction March 15th 14-19 Curriculum
March 22nd
Special Education Provider
March 29th
TeachMeet
April 5th
Millgate – Behaviour for Learning
April 26th
Human Resources
May 3rd
Moving Forward

9. Bridging the GPS Gap
Participation
Organisation
Communication